| Welcome to Southern Bohemian Mineralogy Club Site | ||
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Southern Bohemian Mineralogy Club was founded in 2003 and is based in Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic. It has 14 regular members, who are collecting minerals (some members longer than twenty years) or are only interested in rocks and minerals. | |
| Griquaite (kind of
eklogite) with pyrope and enstatite from Kremze valley, Southern Bohemia (size 8 x 6 cm) |
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| Although the primary region of interest is Southern Bohemia (see the map), many activities are also focused to whole Czech Republic or worldwide. The main activities are weekend collecting trips, monthly meetings, presentations and excursions. History of activities you can see in section “Uskutecnene akce” (unfortunately only in Czech, but we are preparing these pages also in English). |
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| Zircon in albite from Plesovice quarry, Southern Bohemia (size 5 x 3 mm) | ||
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The Club’s database includes many localities from the Czech Republic and more than one hundred active localities of Southern Bohemia, which offer more than seventy different mineral species, including well-known tectites (moldavites). | |
| Red opal from Kremze valley, Southern Bohemia (size 8 x 6 cm) | ||
| Typical mineral specimens for Southern Bohemia are opal, rose-quartz, rutile, limonite, fluorapatite, wavellite, andalusite, sillimanite, kyanite, zircon, pyrope, elbaite, lepidolite, enstatite, chrysotile, antigorite, vermiculite etc. |
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| Vanadian wavellite from
Cernovice, Southern Bohemia (size of picture area 4 x 3 cm) |
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The complete list of Southern Bohemian minerals you can see in section “Jihoceske mineraly” (unfortunately only in Czech, but we are preparing these pages also in English). | |
| Hercynite from Sepekov,
Southern Bohemia (size of picture area 10 x 7 mm) |
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| We offer long-term
friendship to foreign clubs or foreign collectors with possibility of exchanging minerals
(you can see section "Vymena a prodej"*) and excursions through Czech or Southern Bohemian
localities. If you are interested in such kind of cooperation, feel free
to
e-mail us to info@mineraly.org.
*) Prices are in CZK. A Price in EUR is in rate 1:30. |
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| Smoky quartz from Kovarov,
Southern Bohemia (size 55 cm) |
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